Re: Load balance for POP3

2008-06-30 Thread scuba
Roger, On Fri, 27 Jun 2008, Roger Olofsson wrote: |[EMAIL PROTECTED] skrev: | | I need to switch the users connections between two POP3 servers based on | login information. | Since the login is part of the pop3 handshake, I'm stuck on how to | transfer the connection and pass the info

Re: Too Much Context Switching?

2008-06-30 Thread Kris Kennaway
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: First off, thanks for such a prompt response. :-) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm the webmaster for www.marssociety.org, which is a FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE box running on a dual-core AMD Opteron setup with 4GB of RAM. The box is reasonably busy, as it's the sole piece of

Re: Too Much Context Switching?

2008-06-30 Thread cpghost
On Mon, 30 Jun 2008 10:48:25 -0400 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually, I decided to run vmstat this morning for a little while after turning off Zope, and during the couple of minutes I had it going, the number of processes running (as indicated by the leftmost column of vmstat's output) was

Re: Load balance for POP3

2008-06-30 Thread Vince Hoffman
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Roger, On Fri, 27 Jun 2008, Roger Olofsson wrote: |[EMAIL PROTECTED] skrev: | | I need to switch the users connections between two POP3 servers based on | login information. | Since the login is part of the pop3 handshake, I'm stuck on how to |

FreeBSD, Squid, Active Directory integration

2008-06-30 Thread Matt Kosht
I am searching for a way to passthru (not prompt the user for authentication) a Windows users' Active Directory credentials to Squid running on FreeBSD. With this AD info I can ACL where the user can go and have their individual usage logged All the HOWTO's I found seem to require a manual

Re: Off Topic: Sunbird calendar server?

2008-06-30 Thread Michael W. Holdeman
On Sunday 29 June 2008 13:20:11 Andrew Berry wrote: On 28-Jun-08, at 12:01 AM, Jack Barnett wrote: She is a fan of Google Calendars (which I admit works well), but I'm a fan of Sunbird (since it's local and don't need internets for it to work). I could probably convert her to Sunbird if

RE: FreeBSD and Active Directory

2008-06-30 Thread Chris Edwards
What version of Samba are you using? I am getting an error trying to load the pam_winbind.so when a user tries to authenticate. --- Chris Edwards Smartech Corp. Div. of AirNet Group http://www.airnetgroup.com http://www.smartechcorp.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] P: 423-664-7678 x114 C: 423-593-6964

Re: Off Topic: Sunbird calendar server?

2008-06-30 Thread Michael W. Holdeman
On Monday 30 June 2008 10:53:00 Michael W. Holdeman wrote: On Sunday 29 June 2008 13:20:11 Andrew Berry wrote: On 28-Jun-08, at 12:01 AM, Jack Barnett wrote: She is a fan of Google Calendars (which I admit works well), but I'm a fan of Sunbird (since it's local and don't need internets

Re: usb mouse is detected by fbsd 7 but not X

2008-06-30 Thread Aggelidis Nikos
I had the same problem when 2 weeks ago i installed FreeBSD7. the solution was: # Xorg -configure to create an default xorg.conf file. {http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/x-config.html} Apparently for the mouse to work it needs a default{at least} xorg.conf file. -nicolas PS: If

Re: Change in /etc/rc.conf:ipv6_defaultrouter

2008-06-30 Thread Ashish Shukla आशीष शुक्ल
,--- Kirk Strauser writes: | On Sunday 29 June 2008, Ashish Shukla आशीष शुक्ल wrote: || I think how without specifying zone index[1] in link-local address || worked, it is probably due to availability of only single inet6 || interface except lo0. | The physical and virtual interfaces on the

Re: Change in /etc/rc.conf:ipv6_defaultrouter

2008-06-30 Thread Kirk Strauser
On Monday 30 June 2008, Ashish Shukla आशीष शुक्ल wrote: Did you mean your setup stopped working after you compiled new kernel, hmm...? Yes. Unfortunately, I'm not sure exactly when it happened. I saw an article on Slashdot about IPv6, went to look at my maillog to see how much traffic I'd

Re: filesystem information

2008-06-30 Thread Jim
On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 7:30 AM, Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In response to Jim [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I have a computer that is in a situation where it is losing power occasionally. All but one of the filesystems are going along fine. Once file system seems to lose data on a power

Re: fusefs-ghoto2fs

2008-06-30 Thread Lowell Gilbert
chip [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I found a pkg to add that supposed will allow me to mount the camera as a filesystem, it's called fusefs-gphotofs. The following instructions are given at the end of the pkg_add process - Now fuse filesystems (sysutils/fusefs-*) can be mounted at startup from

Re: Change in /etc/rc.conf:ipv6_defaultrouter

2008-06-30 Thread Ashish Shukla आशीष शुक्ल
,--- Kirk Strauser writes: | On Monday 30 June 2008, Ashish Shukla आशीष शुक्ल wrote: || Did you mean your setup stopped working after you compiled new kernel, || hmm...? | Yes. Unfortunately, I'm not sure exactly when it happened. I saw an | article on Slashdot about IPv6, went to look at my

Re: filesystem information

2008-06-30 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 12:30:38PM -0400, Jim wrote: On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 7:30 AM, Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In response to Jim [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I have a computer that is in a situation where it is losing power occasionally. All but one of the filesystems are going along

Re: filesystem information

2008-06-30 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Ans set 'hw.ata.wc=0' in /boot/loader.conf to stop the drives from caching writes. it will GREATLY reduce write performance. not just a bit, but many times. WRT softupdates/gjournal, see below. In case of frequent power outages, I guess the right answer is get a UPS. :) it is definitely

Re: calcru: runtime went backwards errors

2008-06-30 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I've been seeing errors like the following appearing: Jun 30 03:13:57 ford kernel: calcru: runtime went backwards from 261 usec to 258 usec for pid 516 (devd) Jun 30 03:13:57 ford kernel: calcru: runtime went backwards from 4976 usec to 4926 usec for pid 367 (pflogd) Jun 30 03:13:57 ford kernel:

Re: Too Much Context Switching?

2008-06-30 Thread Michel Talon
Kris Kennaway wrote: In 6.x. the default thread library is quite inefficient although it can make use of multiple CPUs (again, providing the application is giving them work to do). For multi-threaded performance you will be better off switching to the libthr library (see libmap.conf(5))

Re: filesystem information

2008-06-30 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 07:05:51PM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote: Ans set 'hw.ata.wc=0' in /boot/loader.conf to stop the drives from caching writes. it will GREATLY reduce write performance. not just a bit, but many times. Of course. And mounting filesystems with sync will also reduce

Re: Too Much Context Switching?

2008-06-30 Thread Kris Kennaway
Michel Talon wrote: Kris Kennaway wrote: In 6.x. the default thread library is quite inefficient although it can make use of multiple CPUs (again, providing the application is giving them work to do). For multi-threaded performance you will be better off switching to the libthr library (see

7.0 No Sound: emu10k1

2008-06-30 Thread David Horn
I'm hoping that someone can help me get my soundcard working properly with FreeBSD 7.0. I have tried all of the suggestions in the handbook, and am at a loss on next steps to diagnose. I am starting to think that I am missing something very simple. Hardware: SoundBlaster Audigy 2 ZS (PCI bus)

Re: Too Much Context Switching?

2008-06-30 Thread Michel Talon
On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 07:53:00PM +0200, Kris Kennaway wrote: Yep, it could be that -- what confuses me though is that it is claimed that performance suddenly regressed. If so then this cannot be the underlying cause. It may be that the load has augmented to the point that contention

Re: 7.0 No Sound: emu10k1

2008-06-30 Thread Gonzalo Nemmi
Besides having loaded the snd_emu10k1, have you made sure you have the sound driver loaded? In order to get any sound you need both of them loaded into the kernel .. the sound module loads the sound system .. and the snd_xxx just loads the right module for your sound card... so, basically,

Re: Too Much Context Switching?

2008-06-30 Thread Kris Kennaway
Michel Talon wrote: On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 07:53:00PM +0200, Kris Kennaway wrote: Yep, it could be that -- what confuses me though is that it is claimed that performance suddenly regressed. If so then this cannot be the underlying cause. It may be that the load has augmented to the point

Re: filesystem information

2008-06-30 Thread Jim
In case of frequent power outages, I guess the right answer is get a UPS. :) Aye, I just got one. But for the longest time, it was a bit out of my price range due to other priorities. Actually, the whole model line was defective, so they are sending me a new one, and I have to wait for it to

Re: filesystem information

2008-06-30 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Jim [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I'm aware of nothing but a UPS can completely protect me from an outage. I was just wondering why that ONE file system was misbehaving, and the rest are prefectly fine - which seemed odd. Additionally, why were files that are read, but not written, being

Re: Too Much Context Switching?

2008-06-30 Thread alex
In 6.x. the default thread library is quite inefficient although it can make use of multiple CPUs (again, providing the application is giving them work to do). For multi-threaded performance you will be better off switching to the libthr library (see libmap.conf(5)) or updating to 7.0 (where

Re: 7.0 No Sound: emu10k1

2008-06-30 Thread David Horn
Thanks for the hint. snd_emu10kx instead of snd_emu10k1 (doh!) I knew it had to be something simple. Everything is working great now. --_Dave ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: filesystem information

2008-06-30 Thread Jim
If the files themselves are disappearing, then it could be the directory entry that's getting corrupted. The files are there, but their content is corrupted. Even if you're not doing it directly, is your mp3 software writing temp or other status files to that directory? If you're curious,

Re: filesystem information

2008-06-30 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Jim [EMAIL PROTECTED]: If the files themselves are disappearing, then it could be the directory entry that's getting corrupted. The files are there, but their content is corrupted. Well ... that seems to contradict my theory ... Even if you're not doing it directly, is

Re: 7.0 No Sound: emu10k1

2008-06-30 Thread Gonzalo Nemmi
Glad to hear I helped you out and you solved your problem :) -- Blessings Gonzalo Nemmi On Monday 30 June 2008 16:28:37 David Horn wrote: Thanks for the hint. snd_emu10kx instead of snd_emu10k1 (doh!) I knew it had to be something simple. Everything is working great now. --_Dave

Re: trouble shooting samba performance

2008-06-30 Thread worms
On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 5:25 PM, Sten Daniel Soersdal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: worms wrote: Hello, Can anyone point me to a guide on trouble shooting samba performance or a quick list of common issues I can check for. I've been googling but haven't found much that referenced a recent

OT: anyone been crazy enough to mirror wikipedia?

2008-06-30 Thread Steve Franks
So call me a sociopath, but times are a bit scary. I'd like to do the 2000's equivalent of the 1960's bomb shelter, and have my very own snapshot in case of major local/regional internet disruption, etc. What would be the best way to go about this. I see with 1T words, it appears doable on

priority or order for /usr/local/etc/rc.d scripts?

2008-06-30 Thread fred
Hi guys, Basically, I have 2 scripts in the folder “/usr/local/etc/rc.d/” Resin.sh and apache.sh I need resin to be started when apache is starting, how can I do that? I can’t find any documentation on priority or order for startup scripts. I have tried adding a line at the end of

Re: OT: anyone been crazy enough to mirror wikipedia?

2008-06-30 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Steve Franks [EMAIL PROTECTED]: So call me a sociopath, but times are a bit scary. I'd like to do the 2000's equivalent of the 1960's bomb shelter, and have my very own snapshot in case of major local/regional internet disruption, etc.

Re: priority or order for /usr/local/etc/rc.d scripts?

2008-06-30 Thread Derek Ragona
At 03:37 PM 6/30/2008, fred wrote: Hi guys, Basically, I have 2 scripts in the folder /usr/local/etc/rc.d/ Resin.sh and apache.sh I need resin to be started when apache is starting, how can I do that? I can't find any documentation on priority or order for startup scripts. I have

Re: OT: anyone been crazy enough to mirror wikipedia?

2008-06-30 Thread DAve
Steve Franks wrote: So call me a sociopath, but times are a bit scary. I'd like to do the 2000's equivalent of the 1960's bomb shelter, and have my very own snapshot in case of major local/regional internet disruption, etc. What would be the best way to go about this. I see with 1T words, it

Re: priority or order for /usr/local/etc/rc.d scripts?

2008-06-30 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On June 30, 2008 4:37:47 PM -0400 fred [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi guys, Basically, I have 2 scripts in the folder “/usr/local/etc/rc.d/” Resin.sh and apache.sh I need resin to be started when apache is starting, how can I do that? I can’t find any documentation on priority or order

Re: priority or order for /usr/local/etc/rc.d scripts?

2008-06-30 Thread Andrew Wright
Regarding the order of rc scripts, On Mon, 30 Jun 2008, fred wrote: I need resin to be started when apache is starting, how can I do that? I can?t find any documentation on priority or order for startup scripts. The rcorder(8) page will help you out. Note the PROVIDE and REQUIRE keywords.

Gmirror Load vs Round-Robin

2008-06-30 Thread Peter Clark
Is there a best practice usage for these 2 balance options. In reading the man page, freebsd handbook and various how to's I see no clear usage. Or at least it isnt clear to me. When should you use either one? I am setting up a Raid 1 in FreeBSD 7.0-p2 Release with some SCSI drives. Peter

Re: priority or order for /usr/local/etc/rc.d scripts?

2008-06-30 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 04:37:47PM -0400, fred wrote: Hi guys, Basically, I have 2 scripts in the folder /usr/local/etc/rc.d/ Resin.sh and apache.sh Are these the scripts provided by the ports? They should be installed without the '.sh' extension. See rc(8). I need resin to be started

Maximum swap size?

2008-06-30 Thread snott
Is there a maximum swap size limitation? I'm using a 64-bit arch and only seem to get about 32GB of usable swap out of a 250GB disk (all of /dev/ad6) Thanks, Skye # uname -a FreeBSD XX 7.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE #0: Sun Feb 24 10:35:36 UTC 2008 [EMAIL

Re: 7.0 No Sound: emu10k1

2008-06-30 Thread RW
On Mon, 30 Jun 2008 15:28:37 -0400 David Horn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for the hint. snd_emu10kx instead of snd_emu10k1 (doh!) I knew it had to be something simple. Everything is working great now. For future reference there's an easy way to find the correct driver. You kldload

Re: Too Much Context Switching?

2008-06-30 Thread Michel Talon
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's actually been a long, slow, steady degradation of performance as best I can tell, that's recently just reached proportions that are so ridiculous that it's gone from this sucks but I can deal to this is completely unusable. The system has been slow from the

Re: Maximum swap size?

2008-06-30 Thread Ryan Coleman
snott wrote: Is there a maximum swap size limitation? I'm using a 64-bit arch and only seem to get about 32GB of usable swap out of a 250GB disk (all of /dev/ad6) Thanks, Skye # uname -a FreeBSD XX 7.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE #0: Sun Feb 24 10:35:36 UTC 2008 [EMAIL

Re: Maximum swap size?

2008-06-30 Thread snott
Trust me, I really do want 250GB (or more) of swap. I'm using swap as a backing store for an HTTP reverse proxy for very large cache sets. Its more efficient to just use the vm layer for LRU object management than to create a huge mmap'd file with file buf caching. Skye Ryan Coleman wrote:

Re: Too Much Context Switching?

2008-06-30 Thread alex
Quoting Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Michel Talon wrote: On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 07:53:00PM +0200, Kris Kennaway wrote: Yep, it could be that -- what confuses me though is that it is claimed that performance suddenly regressed. If so then this cannot be the underlying cause. It may be

Re: Maximum swap size?

2008-06-30 Thread Kris Kennaway
snott wrote: Trust me, I really do want 250GB (or more) of swap. I'm using swap as a backing store for an HTTP reverse proxy for very large cache sets. Its more efficient to just use the vm layer for LRU object management than to create a huge mmap'd file with file buf caching. I am not

Re: Too Much Context Switching?

2008-06-30 Thread Kris Kennaway
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quoting Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Michel Talon wrote: On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 07:53:00PM +0200, Kris Kennaway wrote: Yep, it could be that -- what confuses me though is that it is claimed that performance suddenly regressed. If so then this cannot be the

Re: Too Much Context Switching? - FIXED

2008-06-30 Thread alex
Quoting Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quoting Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Michel Talon wrote: On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 07:53:00PM +0200, Kris Kennaway wrote: Yep, it could be that -- what confuses me though is that it is claimed that performance suddenly

Re: freebsd-update key error

2008-06-30 Thread Glenn Sieb
Rudi Kramer - MWEB wrote: Hey Robert, This error indicates that you are having some sort of connection issues, I for instance get it when I forget to use our work proxy, here are some steps you can try to remedy the problem: 1) Can you resolve update1.FreeBSD.org? 2) Can you ping

Configuring an older server for speed...

2008-06-30 Thread Kurt Buff
All, I've got a Compaq ML570 with 2gb RAM, dual PIII Xeon 700s and 5x10k RPM drives in it attached to a Compaq 5300 RAID card that I'm going to be using as a squid box. I've configured two drives as RAID 1 with the third as a hot spare, and two drives as RAID0 - I intend to put the squid cache

Re: Too Much Context Switching? - FIXED

2008-06-30 Thread Kris Kennaway
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quoting Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quoting Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Michel Talon wrote: On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 07:53:00PM +0200, Kris Kennaway wrote: Yep, it could be that -- what confuses me though is that it is claimed

Re: Too Much Context Switching? - FIXED

2008-06-30 Thread alex
Quoting Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quoting Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quoting Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Michel Talon wrote: On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 07:53:00PM +0200, Kris Kennaway wrote: Yep, it could be that -- what

which font previewer?

2008-06-30 Thread Gary Kline
A fellow compunerd got tired of being first-hired and first-fired, went back to school in art/computer animation. long-story-story, this guy came up with the right kind of logo for my website; he sent a united t+u that at least *i* liked. Now that I'm learning

Re: Too Much Context Switching? - FIXED

2008-06-30 Thread Josh Carroll
I will, probably as part of upgrading to 7.0 (which I may accelerate, given this point). I'm just ecstatic at the difference I'm already seeing, and specifically wanted to make note of it in the archives. Point very much taken, though. :-) It's trivial to change to libthr, as pointed out

Re: Configuring an older server for speed...

2008-06-30 Thread Ryan Coleman
Kurt Buff wrote: All, I've got a Compaq ML570 with 2gb RAM, dual PIII Xeon 700s and 5x10k RPM drives in it attached to a Compaq 5300 RAID card that I'm going to be using as a squid box. I've configured two drives as RAID 1 with the third as a hot spare, and two drives as RAID0 - I intend to

Re: Configuring an older server for speed...

2008-06-30 Thread prad
On Mon, 30 Jun 2008 20:39:05 -0500 Ryan Coleman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would recommend fBSD 6.3 instead of 7. You don't need it, unless you have a documented reason it has to be 7.0 really?! i thought 7 was supposed to be a big improvement over 6.3: Dramatic improvements in performance

Re: second pre-emptive raid: stripes and the os

2008-06-30 Thread prad
On Sun, 29 Jun 2008 14:56:57 -0700 prad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: based on the excellent ideas from the first pre-emptive raid thread we have been considering raid1+0 or raid5 for our server our server just arrived today!! and there was an unexpected surprise in it - a raid card mylex extreme

searching freebsd-questions Archives

2008-06-30 Thread prad
i've gone to freebsd-questions Archives: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/ and tried typing all sorts of things in the search box and playing with the other fields (eg all and any, but i always get No matches were found for '...' how is one supposed to use the search in the

Fatal Trap 12 Page Fault while in Kernel Moder

2008-06-30 Thread Devinder Singh
Hi I am using Free BSD 6.3 and am intergating Monowal and FreeRadius When i make the image i get this error Fatal Trap 12 :page fault while in kernel mode Fault virtual addres 0xbffle000 fault code -= supervisor write, page not present instruction pointer = 0*28 = trap number 12 panic

Making changes to ports default install

2008-06-30 Thread Tim DeBoer
Hi everyone, I've been working on a new server, and I'd like to install apache from ports to make maintenance easier. The problem is the default layout drives me nuts. I'd like to use a more intuitive layout. Is it possible to pass a custom layout file during make build? Something like make build

Re: Configuring an older server for speed...

2008-06-30 Thread David Gurvich
There are improvements in the wireless system and in locking. One of the most interesting is the possibility of using zfs and dtrace from Solaris. Many of these features have undiscovered bugs that you might prefer not discovering on your own server. For desktop and laptop use I would certainly

Re: Configuring an older server for speed...

2008-06-30 Thread prad
On Mon, 30 Jun 2008 23:17:05 -0400 David Gurvich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Many of these features have undiscovered bugs that you might prefer not discovering on your own server. oh oh. but what if we are just running a plain webserver (mainly static html) and email. we are sticking to ufs of

Re: Configuring an older server for speed...

2008-06-30 Thread Kurt Buff
On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 6:39 PM, Ryan Coleman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kurt Buff wrote: All, I've got a Compaq ML570 with 2gb RAM, dual PIII Xeon 700s and 5x10k RPM drives in it attached to a Compaq 5300 RAID card that I'm going to be using as a squid box. I've configured two drives as

Re: Making changes to ports default install

2008-06-30 Thread Sahil Tandon
Tim DeBoer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been working on a new server, and I'd like to install apache from ports to make maintenance easier. The problem is the default layout drives me nuts. I'd like to use a more intuitive layout. Is it possible to pass a custom layout file during make

Re: Configuring an older server for speed...

2008-06-30 Thread Sahil Tandon
Ryan Coleman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kurt Buff wrote: [...] I would recommend fBSD 6.3 instead of 7. You don't need it, unless you have a documented reason it has to be 7.0 Please qualify that recommendation; as it stands, it is pure FUD. -- Sahil Tandon [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Configuring an older server for speed...

2008-06-30 Thread Ryan Coleman
Sahil Tandon wrote: Ryan Coleman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kurt Buff wrote: [...] I would recommend fBSD 6.3 instead of 7. You don't need it, unless you have a documented reason it has to be 7.0 Please qualify that recommendation; as it stands, it is pure FUD. I don't

Re: OT: anyone been crazy enough to mirror wikipedia?

2008-06-30 Thread Chad Perrin
On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 05:15:39PM -0400, DAve wrote: Steve Franks wrote: So call me a sociopath, but times are a bit scary. I'd like to do the 2000's equivalent of the 1960's bomb shelter, and have my very own snapshot in case of major local/regional internet disruption, etc. What would

Re: Configuring an older server for speed...

2008-06-30 Thread Matthew Seaman
prad wrote: On Mon, 30 Jun 2008 23:17:05 -0400 David Gurvich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Many of these features have undiscovered bugs that you might prefer not discovering on your own server. oh oh. but what if we are just running a plain webserver (mainly static html) and email. we are

Is it reliable to increase the MAXCPU in param.h ?

2008-06-30 Thread ProAce
Server: HP DL785G5 with 8 CPU ( 32 cores ) , 16G RAM OS: FreeBSD 7.0-amd64 Kernel 1: MAXCPU = 16 ( default ) Kernel 2: MAXCPU = 32 DL785G5 run with kernel 1 and kernel 2 both successfully, and the FreeBSD can detect the 16 CPUs and 32 CPUs normally ( using top -S command). If I use kernel 2 for

Re: Using freebsd-update after upgrading from source

2008-06-30 Thread Victor Sudakov
Manolis Kiagias wrote: I have been updating 6.2-RELEASE with freebsd-update. Recently I upgraded it to RELENG_6_3 from source. Can I continue using freebsd-update or must I upgrade only from source from now on? I don't see why not. I was wondering if freebsd-update will break if my

Using freebsd-update after upgrading from source

2008-06-30 Thread Victor Sudakov
Colleagues, I have been updating 6.2-RELEASE with freebsd-update. Recently I upgraded it to RELENG_6_3 from source. Can I continue using freebsd-update or must I upgrade only from source from now on? I conducted an experiment and got inconclusive results. I had upgraded to RELENG_6_3-p2 where

keymapping - numlock doesn't work anymore

2008-06-30 Thread Alain G. Fabry
FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE (qemu host) X.Org X Server 1.4.2 HP Compaq nc8430 laptop Hi, recently I performed a portupgrade (-R xorg-server) and now my numlock doesn't work anymore under Xorg. Since I was having problems with my key-mapping in Qemu (key 1 and 4 did not work), I used the numlock to boot

Re: Problem With ZFS script

2008-06-30 Thread Kris Kennaway
Vince Hoffman wrote: -- #!/bin/sh - TEXT=$(kldstat | tr a-f A-F | \ awk 'BEGIN {print ibase=16}; NR 1 {print $4}'\ | bc | awk '{a+=$1}; END {print a}') DATA=$(vmstat -m | sed 's/K//' | awk '{a+=$3}; END {print a*1024}') TOTAL=$(echo $DATA $TEXT | awk '{print $1+$2}') echo

Re: Too Much Context Switching?

2008-06-30 Thread Kris Kennaway
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm the webmaster for www.marssociety.org, which is a FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE box running on a dual-core AMD Opteron setup with 4GB of RAM. The box is reasonably busy, as it's the sole piece of hardware running web, database, and mail operations for the Mars Society, an

Re: XScreensaver issue

2008-06-30 Thread Daniel Bye
On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 04:04:36PM -0400, Matthew Donovan wrote: Hi, I'm getting since my last update an error message in xscreensaver: glslideshow: couldn't create GL context Actually I'm not able to use any OpenGL screensaver anymore. OpenGL is running fine, I'm using composite

Re: rc scripts

2008-06-30 Thread David Allen
On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 3:01 PM, Derek Ragona [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 04:11 PM 6/27/2008, David Allen wrote: I need to an '-s' flag to the execution of openntpd's rc script: The problems I'm having are multiple. First, the program doesn't offer any logging, and running it with the do

Re: Problem With ZFS script

2008-06-30 Thread Vince Hoffman
Kris Kennaway wrote: Vince Hoffman wrote: -- #!/bin/sh - TEXT=$(kldstat | tr a-f A-F | \ awk 'BEGIN {print ibase=16}; NR 1 {print $4}'\ | bc | awk '{a+=$1}; END {print a}') DATA=$(vmstat -m | sed 's/K//' | awk '{a+=$3}; END {print a*1024}') TOTAL=$(echo $DATA $TEXT |

7.0-release f77

2008-06-30 Thread Konrad Heuer
Hello, just finished installing and upgrading to 7.0-RELEASE-p2 on one of my server systems .. now f77 doesn't seem to exist within the base system anymore, and installing from /usr/ports/lang/f77 doesn't help: f77 sample.f Error on line 0: Invalid flag '-o' gcc: /var/tmp/f772ImD.c: No such

Re: rc scripts

2008-06-30 Thread David Allen
On 6/27/08, Paul Schmehl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --On Friday, June 27, 2008 14:11:55 -0700 David Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I need to an '-s' flag to the execution of openntpd's rc script: # PROVIDE: openntpd # REQUIRE: DAEMON # BEFORE: LOGIN # KEYWORD: nojail .

filesystem information

2008-06-30 Thread Jim
I have a computer that is in a situation where it is losing power occasionally. All but one of the filesystems are going along fine. Once file system seems to lose data on a power outage. Even if it only reads a file, and doesn't write it, it may still lose a file (ex, about half the audio files

Re: 7.0-release f77

2008-06-30 Thread Beech Rintoul
On Monday 30 June 2008, Konrad Heuer said: Hello, just finished installing and upgrading to 7.0-RELEASE-p2 on one of my server systems .. now f77 doesn't seem to exist within the base system anymore, and installing from /usr/ports/lang/f77 doesn't help: f77 sample.f Error on line 0:

Re: filesystem information

2008-06-30 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Jim [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I have a computer that is in a situation where it is losing power occasionally. All but one of the filesystems are going along fine. Once file system seems to lose data on a power outage. Even if it only reads a file, and doesn't write it, it may still

Re: sysctl enabled but HAL non-existant

2008-06-30 Thread Reid Linnemann
Desmond Chapman wrote: The media shows up in konqueror as a normal user but I cannot mount it. there is no reference to hal with an apropos search except for ath_hal. What am I doing wrong? What else do I add to make the cd easily mountable?

Re: Problem With ZFS script

2008-06-30 Thread Kris Kennaway
Vince Hoffman wrote: Kris Kennaway wrote: Vince Hoffman wrote: -- #!/bin/sh - TEXT=$(kldstat | tr a-f A-F | \ awk 'BEGIN {print ibase=16}; NR 1 {print $4}'\ | bc | awk '{a+=$1}; END {print a}') DATA=$(vmstat -m | sed 's/K//' | awk '{a+=$3}; END {print a*1024}')

Re: Using freebsd-update after upgrading from source

2008-06-30 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Victor Sudakov wrote: Colleagues, I have been updating 6.2-RELEASE with freebsd-update. Recently I upgraded it to RELENG_6_3 from source. Can I continue using freebsd-update or must I upgrade only from source from now on? I don't see why not. freebsd-update will download binary updates to

freebsd-update and more information

2008-06-30 Thread Zbigniew Szalbot
Dear all, I read man freebsd-update but it has not answered my questions. That is, after I have issued freebsd-update fetch/install, where can I find information about if the installed updates require recompiling the kernel or system restart? Thank you in advance! -- Zbigniew Szalbot

Re: freebsd-update and more information

2008-06-30 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: Dear all, I read man freebsd-update but it has not answered my questions. That is, after I have issued freebsd-update fetch/install, where can I find information about if the installed updates require recompiling the kernel or system restart? Thank you in advance!

Re: debug.cpufreq.lowest doesn't work?

2008-06-30 Thread Kemian Dang
2008/6/29 Patrick Lamaizière [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Le Sun, 29 Jun 2008 12:42:33 +0100, Kemian Dang [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : Hi all, Hi, I set sysctl debug.cpufreq.lowest=800 but sysctl -a still told me that the CPU freq is at 300, though it will jump high if I am doing some heavy work.

Re: freebsd-update and more information

2008-06-30 Thread Zbigniew Szalbot
Hello again, Not all updates include kernel updates, some are just userland. If you are running a GENERIC, unomdified (from CD) kernel, this will be updated in the process. freebsd-update shows you a list of updated files, and will also show /boot/kernel/kernel if this is updated. You will

Re: freebsd-update and more information

2008-06-30 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: Hello again, Not all updates include kernel updates, some are just userland. If you are running a GENERIC, unomdified (from CD) kernel, this will be updated in the process. freebsd-update shows you a list of updated files, and will also show /boot/kernel/kernel if

Re: freebsd-update and more information

2008-06-30 Thread David Gurvich
freebsd-update only updates the installed sources, not all sources. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

calcru: runtime went backwards errors

2008-06-30 Thread David Allen
I've been seeing errors like the following appearing: Jun 30 03:13:57 ford kernel: calcru: runtime went backwards from 261 usec to 258 usec for pid 516 (devd) Jun 30 03:13:57 ford kernel: calcru: runtime went backwards from 4976 usec to 4926 usec for pid 367 (pflogd) Jun 30 03:13:57 ford kernel:

Re: freebsd-update and more information

2008-06-30 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On June 30, 2008 2:22:41 PM +0200 Zbigniew Szalbot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear all, I read man freebsd-update but it has not answered my questions. That is, after I have issued freebsd-update fetch/install, where can I find information about if the installed updates require recompiling

Re: freebsd-update and more information

2008-06-30 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Paul Schmehl wrote: --On June 30, 2008 2:22:41 PM +0200 Zbigniew Szalbot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear all, I read man freebsd-update but it has not answered my questions. That is, after I have issued freebsd-update fetch/install, where can I find information about if the installed updates

Re: Change in /etc/rc.conf:ipv6_defaultrouter

2008-06-30 Thread Kirk Strauser
On Sunday 29 June 2008, Ashish Shukla आशीष शुक्ल wrote: I think how without specifying zone index[1] in link-local address worked, it is probably due to availability of only single inet6 interface except lo0. The physical and virtual interfaces on the system are exactly as before. I'm

Re: calcru: runtime went backwards errors

2008-06-30 Thread Bob Johnson
On 6/30/08, David Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been seeing errors like the following appearing: Jun 30 03:13:57 ford kernel: calcru: runtime went backwards from 261 usec to 258 usec for pid 516 (devd) [...] Jun 30 03:13:57 ford kernel: calcru: runtime went backwards from 486 usec to

Re: Too Much Context Switching?

2008-06-30 Thread alex
First off, thanks for such a prompt response. :-) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm the webmaster for www.marssociety.org, which is a FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE box running on a dual-core AMD Opteron setup with 4GB of RAM. The box is reasonably busy, as it's the sole piece of hardware running web,